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Farmworker health is essential to COVID-19 response (opinion)

Fourth-year med student Edward Corty wrote an op-ed piece for the Tampa Bay Times titled, "Farmworker health is essential to COVID-19 response."

He writes, "Farmworkers are a uniquely vulnerable population that I have had the opportunity to care for in medical school ... In Immokalee, I’ve walked through houses where 20 farmworkers and family members—including young children—crowd into dim and damp rooms, with each individual only guaranteed 50 square feet to themselves. Farmworker surveys show that this is the norm. One only has to look to recent reporting on migrant worker health in Singapore to see what is coming. This is how COVID-19 spreads."

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Apr 20, 2020
FSU News
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During FSU's annual Student Employee of the Year Awards ceremony, Devyn Wallin, a senior editing, writing & media student from Oviedo, Florida, received the Artes (Skill) Award. It recognizes the student employee who best demonstrates critical thinking skills in the workplace. She was nominated by the College of Medicine Public Affairs and Communications Office.

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Apr 17, 2020
FSU News
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Florida State University will stream a virtual commencement ceremony for its spring graduates Saturday, May 2. The College of Medicine, which will graduate 114 new medical doctors, has scheduled a virtual commencement ceremony for 10 a.m. Saturday, May 16. The ceremony will be live streamed at med.fsu.edu. 

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Apr 28, 2020
NPR
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Seniors graduating from high school and college are missing out on milestones and recognition amid the coronavirus pandemic and "safer-at-home" orders. Ludmila De faria, a psychiatrist and clerkship faculty member with the College of Medicine, discusses the impact this may have on seniors, and what parents can do to help their children cope.

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Apr 28, 2020
South Florida Sun Sentinel
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An article from the South Florida Sun Sentinel reads, "The stakes are high as state and local officials puzzle over when to ease coronavirus restrictions: open too quickly and Florida risks a deadly second wave, open too late and the chance of economic recovery gets smothered." Les Beitsch, chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine at the College of Medicine cautions against opening too soon.

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Apr 28, 2020
FSU med students create map of kindness to spread positivity during pandemic (WCTV)

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Apr 27, 2020
Student tech fee spotlight: ultrasound technology (FSU ITS)

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Apr 24, 2020
Tallahassee Democrat
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The creative minds working through the Innovation Hub at Florida State University are using their talents to produce face shields to help protect those on the front lines during the coronavirus pandemic. Emily Pritchard, a research faculty member with the College of Medicine, is one of the organizers.

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Apr 24, 2020
FSU News
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FSU's Innovation Hub has become the center of an effort to help outfit health care workers battling COVID-19. Instead of student projects, the printers are cranking out face shields that project organizers are donating to local medical facilities. “The Hub slogan — ‘empathize, ideate, build’ — is a handy one here,” said Emily Pritchard, a research faculty member with the College of Medicine and one of the organizers of the project.

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Apr 24, 2020
FSU News
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As millions of moms and dads in COVID-19’s stay-at-home Florida wonder what to do next, Florida State University education experts are offering resources to help parents-turned-teaching-assistants make good choices. An activity book developed by the Center for Child Stress and Health, a part of the College of Medicine’s Immokalee Health Education Site, educates children about COVID-19. It’s intended to help parents speak with young children about the virus and to give children tips on how to cope with all of the changes brought on by the outbreak.

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